Environmental apocalypse in science and art : designing nightmares / Sergio Fava.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Fava, Sergio., author.

Series:

• Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Climatic changes--History.
• Climatic changes--Forecasting.
• Environmental disasters--History.
• Environmental disasters--Forecasting.
• Environmental risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and policy, the book situates the failures of climate policy in the cultural history of prediction and its interfaces with policy. Fava calls into question the current interfaces between scientific research and climate policy by tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, reli

Contents:

• Cover; Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art: Designing Nightmares; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Boxes; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1 Deadly Weather: Narratives of Nature and Agency During the Little Ice Age; 2 Counting the Days: John Napier's Exegesis and Mathematics; 3 Drawing the End: Inigo Jones' Banqueting House; 4 Assembling the Worldmachine: Mathematical Modelling of Climate Change; 5 Imagining Futures: The Special Report on Emission Scenarios; 6 Creating One Future: The Doomsday Vault; 7 Reclaiming Futures: Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project; Notes
• BibliographyIndex

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

• 1-283-94225-9
• 0-203-09471-9
• 1-136-20894-1

OCLC:

823719054